Meg Mallon (born April 14, 1963) is an American

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. She became a member of the

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in 1987 and won 18 LPGA Tour events, including four major championships, during her career. Mallon was inducted into the

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in 2017.

Early life and amateur career

Mallon was born on April 14, 1963 in

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. She started playing golf at the age of 7. She won the Michigan Amateur Championship title in 1983. She attended Mercy High School in

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. Mallon attended

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, where she earned All-Conference honors from 1984–85 and was the runner-up at the 1985 Big Ten Championship.

Professional career

Mallon joined the

in 1987. Her breakthrough year was 1991, when she won four times. Two of her victories were majors, the

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and the

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. She was also named Female Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America and Most Improved Player by ''Golf Digest''. She would win two more majors, the

du Maurier Classic The CP Women's Open (french: Open féminin du Canada) is a women's professional golf tournament managed by Golf Canada. It has been Canada's national championship tournament since its founding in 1973 LPGA Tour, 1973, and is an official event on ...

in 2000 and her second U.S. Women's Open in 2004. She also won the season-ending

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in 2003. Mallon won a total of 18 events on the tour, including four major championships. She also had nine top-10 placings on the money list, her best being second in 1991. Mallon played for the United States in the

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eight times: in 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2005. She served as an assistant team captain in 2009. She is the team captain in 2013.Meg Mallon is U.S. Solheim captain
/ref> Mallon was inducted into the Ohio State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1996, the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame in 2002, and the

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in 2008. She was recognized during the LPGA's 50th Anniversary in 2000 as one of the LPGA's top-50 players and teachers. She was a non-voting member of the LPGA Tour Player Executive Committee in 1999, 2004, and 2008. Mallon announced her retirement from professional golf on July 7, 2010, shortly before the start of the 2010 U.S. Women's Open.Golfweek.com
As will to win fades, Mallon, 47, retires
2010-07-07 She was inducted into the Palm Beach County Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2003 during the second round of the Welch's/Fry's Championship, Mallon became the first player in LPGA history to shoot a 60, one stroke off the LPGA Tour's all-time record of 59 set by

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in 2001. She is tied for second in the LPGA's all-time records for most career aces.

Professional wins (20)

LPGA Tour wins (18)

LPGA Tour playoff record (2–1)

Other wins (1)

*1998

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(with Steve Pate)

Legends Tour wins (1)

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Walgreens Charity Championship

Major championships

Wins (4)

Results timeline

^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001. CUT = missed the half-way cut.
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Summary

*Starts – 84 *Wins – 4 *2nd-place finishes – 4 *3rd-place finishes – 1 *Top 3 finishes – 9 *Top 5 finishes – 15 *Top 10 finishes – 21 *Top 25 finishes – 41 *Missed cuts – 18 *Most consecutive cuts made – 24 *Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (5 times)

Team appearances

Professional *

(representing the United States):

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

(winners),

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

(winners),

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

(winners),

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

(winners),

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

(winners),

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

(non-playing captain) *

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(representing the United States): 2005 *

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(representing the United States): 2010 (winners), 2011 (winners), 2014 (winners), 2015 (winners)

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mallon, Meg American female golfers Ohio State Buckeyes women's golfers LPGA Tour golfers Winners of LPGA major golf championships Solheim Cup competitors for the United States World Golf Hall of Fame inductees Golfers from Massachusetts Golfers from Florida People from Natick, Massachusetts People from Ocean Ridge, Florida Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts Sportspeople from the Miami metropolitan area 1963 births Living people

Early life and amateur career

Professional career

Professional wins (20)

LPGA Tour wins (18)

Other wins (1)

Legends Tour wins (1)

Major championships

Wins (4)

Results timeline

Summary

Team appearances

See also

References

External links